Very much. Give yourself a round of applause. [applause] this is one of our favorite events of the year and we feel so honored to have been here with us today. I hope that you all come back next year. I want to introduce first susan, professor at william and has written 12 books, four of whom are on roosevelt and the most recent is a blueprint for war, the 100 days that mobilized america. Whats truly remarkable is the way that it zeros in on a specific timeframe and a series of decisions and actions that were made by one president and one specific circumstance. Michael lost obviously has written nine books and is both an nbc news historian and National Archive foundation, White House Historical society in monticello, i could go on for 20 minutes. Although the awardwinning producer for the documentary the decisions that shook the world coming in his new book president s of war, which bill gates ranked as one of the five to read. It looks at a range of decisions that they made to go to w
[inaudible conversation] welcome to our tent annual book festival. My name is phil. Im a gaithersburg author and reporter for the gaithersburg town carrier. Gaithersburg is a city that proudly supports the arts. Where we are pleased bring you this fabulous event, thanks to the generous support of our volunteers and sponsors. When you see them, please say thanks. If you else was. Please silence all of your devices, we hope youre following the gpf on facebook, and instagram. If you post about the festival, please use to be a hashtag. Your feedback is really valuable to us. Surveys are available here at the tent and our website. By submitting the survey you will be entered into a drawing for 100 gift card. Thats cole. Dobys book signing immediately after the presentation. Copies of theop book on self and attempt. Now quick word about buying books. This is a free event. But it does have a book festival, if you buy lots of books. The more books we sailed our event, the more publishers want
Stand out. Where were you when . I had an awful lot of great brakes related to apollo 11. It was the day i got the assignment to do the landing phase. One of the responsibilities of the lead flight director is to identify which flight director is going to cover which phase of the mission. Im moving in their, we would have been flight directors on gemini and are actually coming back together again. You had probably the three most experienced people at the consult and it was a question of who was going to get to do what. Had been to the moon a couple of times. I had the lunar module experience. So you had no particular driver that says this person ought to be doing this phase of the mission. The division chief at the time had been really on top of us to nail down who is going to do what, until finally after the apollo 9 mission we all managed to get together and charles had to make the calls. I called him and said cliff, weve got to make a decision on which flight directors going to cove
The end of the decade. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. [ cheers and applause ] mr. Vice president , governor, congressman thomas, senator wiley, congressman miller within mr. Webb, mr. Bell, scientists, distinguished guests and ladies and gentlemen, i appreciate your president having made me an honorary visiting professor. And i will assure you that my first lecture will be very brief. I am delighted to be here and particularly delighted to be here on this occasion. We meet at a college noted for knowledge in a city noted for progress, in a state noted for strength. And we stand in need of all three. But we meet in an hour of change and challenge in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance. The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. Despite the striking fact, that most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this nations own scientific manpower is doubling every 12 yea
As long as theyre interested in it. And then they go out and they find they do research. And they find the resources to tell them the story but also try to figure out the significance of their topics in history. So theyre going into archives. Into museums. Into libraries. And theyre sifting through primary sources, secondary sources, and then theyre thinking critically about that and why their topic was important in history as related to an annual theme. And this year is theme is triumph of tragedy in history. And they present their findings in different formats. Of course one of the categories you see right behind me thats the exhibit category. And then theres also paper category. And theres dramatic performance. Documentary. Or website. So history day gives kids an opportunity to be creative in the way in which they present their information. So for performance category, like any other student at any other category, they first have to do the research. Good, Solid Research is the prim